Every course across both stages, side by side

Five named courses across two stages

Under the pre-15-June-2026 structure, official course descriptions named five distinct courses across the two stages of the I Belong Programme — three entry-level courses in Stage 1 (the Pre-Integration Course), and two more advanced courses in Stage 2 (the Integration Course). The table below preserves those published details, dated, for context and for anyone who applied before the restructuring. See the update note directly beneath it for what changed on 15 June 2026.

Where this table reads “not separately published,” that reflects the limits of the official wording we have located — not an estimate or a stand-in figure. See Stage 1 and Stage 2 for the fuller descriptions each course sits within.

What counts for Long-Term Residence now

Since 15 June 2026 the course that feeds into a Long-Term Residence application is the 100-hour Cultural Orientation course: official wording states that “successful completion of I Belong Cultural Orientation at 100-hours is considered one of the requirements for Long-Term Residence Status (LTR) in Malta.” Identità’s separate Long-Term Residence guidance also describes a 100-hour course (and cites a 75% pass mark), so the two descriptions now broadly agree on the 100-hour figure.

Earlier versions of this guide flagged a discrepancy here, because the Directorate previously described a two-course, 170-hour Stage 2 structure that did not match Identità’s single 100-hour figure. The Directorate’s description has since been updated and now aligns on roughly 100 hours; the 170-hour structure applies only to applications received before 15 June 2026. The Directorate no longer publishes a numeric pass mark for the 100-hour course, so the 75% figure is now attributed to Identità only.

See the full Long-Term Residence breakdown for every figure side by side and what this means in practice.